![]() ![]() This dart-like ship from John Carpenter’s debut doesn’t look that eccentric from the outside, but inside it looks like the cross between a submarine and a stoner’s bedsit. The Dark Star Scout Ship – Dark Star (1974) If you’re a late Victorian gentleman dabbling in a bit of space travel, why not do it in style? A kind of diving bell studded with railway buffers, Cavor’s ship is positively luxurious inside, with wood panels and button-back, upholstered walls to prevent bruised knees and elbows. The adorably quaint 1964 film adaptation, co-written by Nigel “ Quatermass” Kneale and directed by Nathan H Juran, remains surprisingly faithful to the book – right down to Cavor’s craft, which takes its spherical design from the illustrations in the novel’s UK and US first editions. ![]() Bedford off to the Moon for a rip-roaring adventure. ![]() Cavor cobble together a spaceship in the Kent countryside, which whisks he and the more pragmatic Mr. HG Wells’ 1901 sci-fi fantasy sees the scatterbrained Mr. We usually stays within the indie film field, but we have caved in to include some bigger titles as well.Cavor’s Ship – The First Men in the Moon (1964) Let’s see if we can expect yet another great space travel film in 2015. Like all films in this niche genre, it was highly indebted to the mother of sci-fi space films, 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 2014 Nolan’s Interstellar was such a project, and although critics were divided, it sure was a great space film that belongs among the ranks of the greatest ever made. ![]() Sometimes it can be done with smaller budgets, and by focusing on the human aspects of things, like in Moon, but usually they are gigantic projects. Making space films, or science fiction films set in space, is by no means an easy task. The movies about Aliens listed here tell us just as much about what it means to a human being on planet earth, as that they are about Aliens and outer space. There are an awful lot of terrible, low-budget space movies out there though, but these are all pretty great. The universe, in all its vastness and mysteriousness, intrigues filmmakers and audiences endlessly. ![]()
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